Liverpool Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

15-03-2012 12:14

On the Frontline with the Mayr-Melnhof Night-Pickets

And the Night was not Unruly ......
Night Pickets at the Mayr-Melnhof Packaging plant in Bootle, Merseside. Read more >>

19-02-2012 11:21 | 3 comments

Libya one year on

Remembering the events that led up to NATO waging war and the subsequent imperialist blitzing of the Libyan People's Jamahiryia Read more >>

18-01-2012 19:11 | 3 comments

BBC finally admits western imperialist forces toppled the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

British special forces were deployed on the ground in order to help the UK's allies - the Libyan revolutionaries often called the National Transitional Council or NTC. Those with a knowledge of the programme insist "they did a tremendous job" and contributed to the final collapse of the Gaddafi regime.
This exposes the apalling collusion of various British left groups and individuals including the SWP, Stop the War, George Galloway and Yvonne Ridley with the forces of western imperialism. Read more >>

31-12-2011 20:34 | 1 comment

The managed decline of Liverpool

After the working class took to the streets and rioted the last thing the ruling class wanted was an unmanaged decline of working class areas... Read more >>

14-12-2011 21:29 | 2 comments

The Public Sector workers’ Strike on November 30

On November 30th an estimated 2 million public sector workers went on strike in Great Britain, making it the biggest protest since the General Strike in 1926. Several of the big public sector unions called out its members currently in receipt of a public sector pension scheme to strike against the huge Read more >>

09-12-2011 17:41

The Unilever Strike and the Case for Classwide Solidarity

More than two and a half thousand UK-based Unilever staff took strike action today, in protest at the company's plans to attack their pension scheme. But the very fact that such attacks are taking place in the private sector as well as the public sector raises the case for classwide solidarity, and an end to union-imposed isolation. Read more >>

22-11-2011 15:55

Chris Grayling MP in Lpool today

Protest against the Minister for DWP Cuts tonight Read more >>

14-11-2011 23:14 | 2 comments

N30 Strike Day Protests Details

Details below.

Check

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/campaigns/30-november/n30events.cfm for updates. Read more >>

03-11-2011 03:00

King Eze Onuigbo's deportation Cancelled for now--Please help stop his detention

Mr King Eze Onuigbo’s removal Nigeria for Tuesday 1st November 2011 was cancelled but he is still in detention at Colnbrook. Many thanks to you all who supported in this hour of need. Read more >>

29-08-2011 10:47

A few quick clarifications on the recent riots

In light of these conflicting interests it is puzzling to see so many - among them Anarchists - defending "communities" and denouncing attacks on them. These communities are not communes, no free associations of producers and consumers, not groups with common interests, but ensembles of conflicting ones. Shop owners, workers, estate kids, council workers, small and large scale capitalists, they do not have the same interests, many of them have directly conflicting ones. The call for community spirit in disregard of what these communities are is, in essence, the same as a nationalist call for unity: a call to subject ones' own interests to that of the "common good". A common good that asks for subordination and restriction. This appreciation of the moralistic collective is what appeals to right-wing, left-wing and some radical writers alike. Read more >>

13-08-2011 19:52 | 1 comment

An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part two)

First, this recurrent accusation of "materialistic" signals a broader refusal not of consumerism - with which you are well familiar and for which you cheerlead full-throated - but of the material fact of social disruption. To speak, with disdain, at the materialistic nature of these days is to speak, beneath your tongue, of a desire that people should go back to "protesting" in ways that remain representational: be counted, be seen, be ignored, go back to the places they live, remain there. It marks your horror at what it looks like for "protest" to become material, and, at that point, no longer protest. Read more >>

29-05-2011 16:13 | 1 addition | 3 comments

j30 - Generalise the Strike - Day of action against the cuts

30th June 2011 may well turn out to be the most important step forward in a mass fight against public sector cuts. Hundreds of thousands of workers could be involved in strike action, from as many as four or five different unions including NUT, PCS, UCU and ATL. Read more >>

13-05-2011 13:00

19 and 20 May: Egyptian worker activists speak in Liverpool and London

On 19 and 20 May, leaders of Egypt's new, independent trade union movement will be speaking in Britain. Read more >>

12-02-2011 21:54 | 1 comment

Lancashire's Anti-Cuts Movement Grows Bigger, And Louder!

A mass protest took place against the conDem coalition's cuts in Preston City Centre today. Read more >>

23-01-2011 00:42 | 1 comment

Phuck The Scum State Wankers Club I'm Voting Horse Outside

In our pup tent we can suck down home brews
And remember money broker Cowen--
And his no-down loan that brought the bad news
That sent us to the street in our home town

Later on we inquire
How our dream so backfired
We followed the rules
We're feelin' like fools
Living in a wanker wonderland Read more >>

19-01-2011 12:33

Reluctant Heinz Strikers Accept De Facto Wage Cut

Workers at the Heinz factory in Kitt Green, Wigan have voted to accept a revised pay and conditions offer, bringing to an end a dispute that had lasted months, and prevented the production of millions of cans. Read more >>

16-01-2011 23:41

Preston Against Cuts: 100 rally on Flagmarket

100 people rallied against the Condem coalition cuts on Preston Flagmarket yesterday. 'This could be the start of something big' Read more >>

15-01-2011 20:23

Workers Film and Video site

Good films , archive footage about key events in working-class history
from the time of the French Revolution. Read more >>

05-01-2011 22:09

Labour Left Back Down on Cuts in Preston

5 Preston Labour councillors, who voted for a motion against cuts and privatisation at the Preston Trades Council and at Anti Cuts meetings spoke and voted against the same motion when it was put to full council Read more >>

27-12-2010 18:15

Taking Power Back from Corrupt Corporate Banker Politicians in Ireland

The power of bank and corporate money in Ireland, was on full display in the last year, particularly on budget day. With Irish citizen's cuts and taxes to finance a bailout of billions subsidizing fraudulent banks and their off-shore owners. Read more >>